Has that been anyone else's experience? Do you need organic here or is most of the local produce already considered organic?
I think one of my most memorable welcome events to CH was going to a farmer's market in downtown Zurich and being told the celery I had in my hand cost 8 CHF. I guess "organic" really gets a premium here in CH.
It might be the celery rather than the organic-I've found celery stalks are not as common as the root (my coop never has celery but always has the root, for example). Also, are you sure you weren't being quoted the per kilo price?
My hobby, for 41 long and happy years was vegetable and fruit gardening. I used diy compost, horse manure, chopped twigs into small pieces, returned vegetable waste, tea leaves, coffee grounds etc., to the pile and spread it on the ground when it was ripe and ready. It cost me nothing.
In otherwords 'organic' or 'bio'.
The only things I sprayed were the apple trees and the plum tree. But only very little.
One begins to despair when the Coop advertises 'bio - shirts'. !!!!!!!!!
Cotton has feelings too, you know.
Cotton, like any other plant, grows faster with fertilizers and might be protected with herbicides. "Bio" means the environment was less polluted.
In addition, it uses huge amounts of water.
Usually in places where water isn't in abundance in the first place.
(Just lookup what happened to the Aral Sea)
If this cotton was fed fertilizers and 'protected' with herbicides then the environment cannot have been 'less' polluted. Only cotton that grows naturally can be 'bio'.
This presumably is what you are saying.
Do you know where I might find fresh celery in Vaud? Founex? Coppet? I'd even be willing to go over the border toward Divonne or Ferney-Voltaire.
I've been to two different Migros locations, a Coop and a Carrfour and have yet to find any.
Wait a month - the season will start mid-late September. Prices will tumble and COOP/Migros will have plenty of it.
Ah Switzerland. The answer to where to find celery is to wait a month. But at least there are 120k salaries to be had.
Is the celery for consumption of for the wet celery and flying helmet?
Corrected that for you.
yawn. It's celery, it's available in the UK year-round and tastes exactly the same.
Yupp. Same with just about any other veg. Why can't we have parsnips all the time, for instance? They manage it with carrots, and confusingly make some of them parsnip-coloured just to catch out the unwary. Apples all year round? Yeah, no problem, we'll import them from wherever we can. Tomatoes? Yeah, why not. Etc. etc.
So why do people make such a fuss about only using seasonal produce? If you really believe that then you would need to give up eating 80% of the fruit and veg on display in any typical supermarket.
But 120k is only an average celery.
Is that like a mean stalker?
my goodness....thank you Italy. I even got an end-of-season 9kg water melon for......... 60 cents.
The stuff I get from Italy is better quality, cheaper and last longer.
We regularly need celery to cook with fresh octopus.
Does it help chop and stir at the same time?
Tom? Is that you?